This list is updated as regularly as possible.
Homicides include those investigated by Louisville Metro Police as well as other Jefferson County law enforcement agencies. All victims were from Louisville, unless otherwise noted.
This list is preliminary, and the number of homicides can change as authorities investigate the circumstances of each case, determining whether the slaying was criminal, justified, accidental or suicide. The Courier Journal has excluded cases deemed accidents, suicides, fatal overdoses or hit-and-run deaths.
So far in 2021, LMPD has investigated 43 homicides.
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11 homicides in 11 days: Louisville gun violence numbers already higher than all of last January Updated: 2:26 PM EST Jan 13, 2021 WLKY Digital Team Share Updated: 2:26 PM EST Jan 13, 2021
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Show Transcript CARAY: POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A TRIPLE SHOOTING IN THE PARK HILL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAPPENED AROUND 10:30 P.M. NEAR WILSON AVENUE. ONE VICTIM WAS FOUND AT THE SCENE IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 2:26 PM EST Jan 13, 2021 WLKY Digital Team After a record-breaking year for homicides, gun violence continues to plague Louisville with the metro already seeing increases in deadly shootings compared to this time last year.Louisville is barely through the first half of January and it s already seen 40 shootings, 11 of which have turned deadly in the first 11 days.In the video player above: 3 wounded in Park Hill shootingGun violence has been reported in differen
I finally did it : Louisville man charged with murder after parents found dead at home Share Updated: 6:59 PM EST Jan 12, 2021 WLKY Digital Team Share Updated: 6:59 PM EST Jan 12, 2021
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Show Transcript : WAS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TODAY AND SHARES WHY NEIGHBORS SAY, AFTER LEARNING THE NEWS, THEY WERE NOT SURPRISED. REPORTER: IT WAS THIS STREET ON MARGO AVENUE WHERE NEIGHBORS TELL ME A STRING OF ARGUMENTS BETWEEN A SON AND HIS PARENTS REACHED A BREAKING POINT. 49-YEAR-OLD THOMAS HATFIELD JUNIOR IS IN CUSTODY FACING TWO COUNTS OF MURDER. POLICE SAY HATFIELD ADMITTED TO SHOOTING HIS PARENTS ON SUNDAY MORNING AT THEIR HOME ON MARGO AVENUE. I WAS VERY UPSET. I’M STILL UPSET. THEY WERE GOOD NEIGHBORS, THEY WERE GOOD PEOPLE AND I LIKED THEM VERY MUCH. REPORTER: PHOEBE ROSCHELLE HAS LIVED NEXT DOOR TO THE HATFIELDS FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS. SHE SAYS SHE DIDN’T HEAR THE GUNSHOTS SUNDAY, BUT WOKE UP TO SOUND THE BLARING SIRENS